期刊名称：HIER Discussion Paper Series / Harvard Institute of Economic Research
出版年度：2006
卷号：2006
出版社：Harvard Institute of Economic Research
摘要：Artificial states are those in which political borders do not coincide with a
division of nationalities desired by the people on the ground. We propose and
compute for all countries in the world two new measures of the degree to which
states are artificial. One is based on measuring how borders split ethnic groups
into two separate adjacent countries. The other measures how straight land
borders are, under the assumption the straight land borders are more likely to
be artificial. We then show that these two measures seem to be highly correlated
with several measures of political and economic success
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